On 11/28/05, Peter Gordon <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nat Gross: > > 1. Typing a partial command that exists in history, hit <F8>, and the > > command either gets completed (if unique string), or a little menu is > > presented. > I've read that you can achieve something similar to this by using the > PgUp/PgDn keys with GNU Bash, but I've not tried it all. I see now that the Pg keys do something, but cant figure what its doing. > > 2. Any command that involves a file or directory (in the current dir) > > can have the file/dir name auto-entered also via > > 'partial-string+function key'. > > Bash's programmable completion is your friend. :-) > You need to install the bash-completion package and make sure you > source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion in your startup scripts > (probably easiest to add it at the end of /etc/bashrc so that > all users gain this benefit). > > Then you can type the first few letters of a command and > hit the tab key, and it will fill in the command name, > or as much as it can of it if two commands start with the > same sequence of characters. It also allows this type of > completion for files/directories, as well as many of the > standard commands. > Interesting note. I do NOT [yet] have the bash-completion pkg installed, and upon reading your message I tried hitting tab. Hitting tab twice produced these results. Thanks!
